After 30+ years of working as a commercial artist in the old animation studios and then as an illustrator and writer of children's books, this site will now show my present work-- a mixture of political cartoons done for websites and a local newspaper, and more serious figurative paintings. As always, the challenge for the contemporary realist is to come up with compositions that resonate deeply in the viewer's memory, long after he or she intially views them. That challenge still motivates me, even in a world of digital image saturation.